On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 10:31 -0400, Andrew C. Smith wrote:
> Hm, as I recall there are tons of hotkeys (but maybe that's just Max5)
> where you can hit a single letter to create a message box, new object,
> whatever. Of course, you have to click a lot too, but I'd venture
> that the time taken in hitting cmd+n and typing "cycle 440" or
> something then clicking twice is a negligible difference to
> SinOsc.ar(440). Also, you have a ready-made GUI to control what
> you're doing, and I'm sure that has instant appreciation from the
> audience. Add to that the auto-complete feature, and it can't be that
> much slower. Unless you've been SuperColliding for so long that you
> forgot how to click.
>
> Hm, I'm thinking about the whole exprand(10,1000)!do features of SC,
> though, and it seems like there's an advantage there. I think the
> real breakthrough to Max live coding will be when people start using
> javascript to instantiate new Max objects and connect them
> algorithmically. Partly because the visual effect would be so cool,
> to see boxes flying around the screen and reproducing themselves.
This sounds a bit like "do sinusoids dream of electric sweeps?":
http://www.piksel.no/pwiki/DoSinusoidsDreamOfElectricSweeps
There is a video under the performances section here:
http://giss.tv/dmmdb/index.php?channel=piksel08
cheers,
dave
Received on Tue Sep 01 2009 - 14:49:14 BST